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Most developed countries have started the implementation of biometric electronic identification cards, especially passports. The European Union and the United States of America struggle to introduce and standardize these electronic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-02-19 Paul Balanoiu

Internet voting will probably be one of the most significant achievements of the future information society. It will have an enormous impact on the election process making it fast, reliable and inexpensive. Nonetheless, so far remote voting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-04-16 Lukasz Nitschke

Ensuring ballot secrecy is critical for fair and trustworthy electronic voting systems, yet achieving strong secrecy guarantees in decentralized, large-scale elections remains challenging. This paper proposes the concept of collectively…

While online services emerge in all areas of life, the voting procedure in many democracies remains paper-based as the security of current online voting technology is highly disputed. We address the issue of trustworthy online voting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-05-15 Robert Riemann , Stéphane Grumbach

Voting is a very important issue which can be beneficial in term of choosing the right leader in an election. A good leader can bring prosperity to a country and also can lead the country in the right direction every time. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Kazi Sadia , Md. Masuduzzaman , Rajib Kumar Paul , Anik Islam

Online elections make a natural target for distributed denial of service attacks. Election agencies wary of disruptions to voting may procure DDoS protection services from a cloud provider. However, current DDoS detection and mitigation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Chris Culnane , Mark Eldridge , Aleksander Essex , Vanessa Teague

Paper ballot voting with its fully-reviewable paper-trail is usually considered as more secure than their e-voting counterparts, given the large number of recent incidents. In this work, we explore the security of paper voting and show that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-30 David M. Sommer , Moritz Schneider , Jannik Gut , Srdjan Capkun

The proposed election system lies in ensuring that it is transparent and impartial.Thus while the electoral system may vary from country to country, It has to take into account the peculiarities of every society while at the same time…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Muhammad Nadeem , Javaid R. Laghari

The Public Key Infrastructure existed in critical infrastructure systems since the expansion of the World Wide Web, but to this day its limitations have not been completely solved. With the rise of government-driven digital identity in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Adrian-Tudor Dumitrescu , Johan Pouwelse

The election, a cornerstone of democracy, is one of the best-recognizable symbols of democratic governance. Voters' confidence in elections is essential, and these days, we can watch practically in live broadcast what consequences distrust…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Šimon Schierreich

Voting is a cornerstone of democracy, allowing citizens to express their will and make collective decisions. With advancing technology, online voting is gaining popularity as it enables voting from anywhere with Internet access, eliminating…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Ivan Homoliak , Tomáš Švondr

We focus on the potential fragility of democratic elections given modern information-communication technologies (ICT) in the Web 2.0 era. Our work provides an explanation for the cascading attrition of public officials recently in the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-20 M. Amin Rahimian , Michael P. Colaresi

Data security, which is concerned with the prevention of unauthorized access to computers, databases, and websites, helps protect digital privacy and ensure data integrity. It is extremely difficult, however, to make security watertight,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Marten Lohstroh

Electronic voting systems have significant advantages in comparison with physical voting systems. One of the main challenges in e-voting systems is to secure the voting process: namely, to certify that the computed results are consistent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Tamir Tassa , Lihi Dery , Arthur Zamarin

The two most common types of electoral systems (ES) used in electing national legislatures are proportional representation and plurality voting. When they are evaluated, most often the arguments come from social choice theory and political…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-11-27 Tomasz Raducha , Jarosław Klamut , Roger Cremades , Paul Bouman , Mateusz Wiliński

In traditional access control policies, every access granted and administrative account introduces an additional vulnerability, as a corruption of a high-privilege user can compromise several sensitive files. Privocracy is an access control…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Pedro Camponês , Hugo Pereira , Adrian Persaud , Kevin Gallagher , Santiago Torres-Arias

Elections are not the only but arguably one of the most important pillars for the proper functioning of liberal democracies. Recent evidence across the globe shows that it is not straightforward to conduct them in a free and fair manner.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Uwe Serdült

This research study focuses primarily on Block-Chain-based voting systems, which facilitate participation in and administration of voting for voters, candidates, and officials. Because we used Block-Chain in the backend, which enables…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Jagbeer Singh , Utkarsh Rastogi , Yash Goel , Brijesh Gupta , Utkarsh

Data privacy is critical in instilling trust and empowering the societal pacts of modern technology-driven democracies. Unfortunately, it is under continuous attack by overreaching or outright oppressive governments, including some of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Chen Chen , Xiao Liang , Bogdan Carbunar , Radu Sion

We propose a protocol for verifiable remote voting with paper assurance. It is intended to augment existing postal voting procedures, allowing a ballot to be electronically constructed, printed on paper, then returned in the post. It allows…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Eleanor McMurtry , Xavier Boyen , Chris Culnane , Kristian Gjøsteen , Thomas Haines , Vanessa Teague